Seeding-machine.



F. R. PAGKHAM.

SEEDING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED JAILZS, 1912.

Patented Oct. 1,1912.

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F. R. PAGKHAM.

SEE-DING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 1912.

1,039,788. Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK R. PACKI-IAM, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN SEEDING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SEEDING-MACI-IINE,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 26, 1912.

1,039,788. Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

Serial No. 673,576.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK R. PAOKHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seeding-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in seeding said patent, this cap extending over the support 1 with its edges arranged coincident with the edge of the support proper, for the i the seed to the seed cells referred to; ome likewise not being shown in the The main hopper l0 and its pose of receiving the seed when such seed as corn and the like is being planted, and also overlies and retains the seed plate in position. The hopper ring 11 may be of the usual kind employed for guiding the seed to the seed cells, but in the present this ring is shown the manner although so fares the an effective manner the seed. n the accompanying drawings-Figure l is a perspective view, partly broken away, of a corn planter hopper showing my improved devices installed therein. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the devices shown in Fig. 1, with the upper part of the hoppers roken away. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same.

Like parts are represented by similar characters of reference in the several views.

In the said drawings, 1 represents a centrally-arranged bottom support, secured through the medium of depressed webs 2, to the open ring 3, which ring is supported at the top of the usual corn planter post or runner shank.

out damage to present invention is it being understood that the constructions described and referred to are simply that of one type of seeding devices for a corn planter to which the following described improvements are applicable.

eretofore, in sowing has been other plate. Such an arrangement is objectionable, however, son that the space between the hopper ring closed suiiiciently to prevent the small seed herein and thereby crushed and destroyed. To overcome this objection, I have ec ge of the seed plate, which register with and operated in the following manner: 13 {111C receive upwardly PIOJGCUDO lu s 5 on represents a plate which has a central perthe gear rlng, as mole fully desc ibed in m foration so as to permit it to fit over the Letters Patent No. 1,016,766, patented February 6th, 1912, this seed plate not being shown in the present case. As in said patent referred to, the support 1 has a central upwardly extending boss 9, which is adapted to be attached a dome-shaped cap of boss 9 of the bottom support.

for the reahopper 16, is a cut-oft in the nature of a brush 20, the handle 21 of which is clamped in a recessed portion 22 or the projecting 35 arm 23, which arm 23 has a squared recessed portion 2 1, which fits over the squared reduced end 25 at the upper end of the boss 9 and is clamped thereon by the bolt 26 and thumb-nut 27, so that as the auxiliary hop- 40 per and seed plate revolve, the brush remains stationary so as to sweep or cut all of the excess seed from the seed cells as they pass over the discharge opening 19. The bolt 26 and thumb-nut 27 are the same 45 part1 which hold the dome-shaped cap previously referred to, in position.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim In a seeding machine employing a main hopper, a bottom support, a central upwardly extending boss on said support, a removable seed plate revolubly mounted on a said support, an auxiliary hopper connected with said seed plate, and a cut-off in said 55 auxiliary hopper removably connected with said boss.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set "my hand this 22nd day of January 1912.

FRANK R. PACKHAM.

tending peripheral flange 17, in line with the ears 15, against which the lower outside edge of the hopper fits so as to hold said hopper firmly in position. The series 0 5 cells or openings 14:, referred to, are of the proper size for the reception of millet and such like seed, and are located on said plate at a point inside of said hopper 16. The plate 13 is extended beyond the hopper 16 a 1O sufiicient distance to overlie and be sup ported by the gear ring 5, when installed in the main hopper, and is adapted to be operatively connected with said gear ring in the same manner as the ordinary seed plate previously referred to; that is, it is provided with a series of peripheral recesses 18 adapted to receive the upwardl projecting lugs 5 on said gear ring. \Vhen thel attachment thus described is to be installed,;

the main hopper and its ring are tilted back, 1 the ordinary seed plate and the dome-shaped cap are removed, and the attachment is set' in position and operatively connected up: with the gear ring, the seed to be sewn being placed in tie hopper 16 of the attachment and drops through the usual opening formed in the bottom support. When the{ mainv hopper is swung back to its normal po- 1 sition, the hopper ring, resting on the aux- 1 iliary seed plate, holds it in position, as ink the case of the ordinary seed plate.

WVitnesses:

MAXMILLA PACKHAM, CHAS. I. Wnnorr.

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